Credits: Минобороны России / Youtube Russian flight test center flew a Su-57 stealth fighter jet without a canopy to better assess the stresses and strains on the aircraft and pilot during an emergency egress procedure. The full video, seen below, was posted on the Russian Ministry of Defense’s YouTube channel …
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PHOTO © 2020 PLANET LABS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION Satellite imagery shows Turkish Air Force F-16 Viper fighter jets at Ganja International Airport in Azerbaijan earlier this month. This is the first hard evidence that at least some of these jets were in that country after fighting …
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An F-35A Lightning II Fighting flies past the Wasatch Mountains by Hill Air Force Base on Dec 7, 2016. The F-35A is a single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation, multirole fighter that’s able to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew …
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Credits: Russian Air Force Recent videos from Russia indicate that the country may be on the verge of introducing significant new air-to-air missile capabilities to its most advanced combat jets. One clip shows a Su-57 Felon advanced combat jet carrying one, or perhaps two, new variants of the R-77 medium-range …
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Details are emerging regarding the shot down of several Azerbaijani An-2 aircraft during the ethnic and territorial conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan is flying “unmanned” An-2 biplanes as decoys to locate Armenian air defense and artillery position. The bi-planes fly towards Armenian positions forcing their ground troops to open fire thus …
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All weather version Mi-28N – See Details: Vitaly V. Kuzmin According to Tass report, The Russian Armed Forces move to equip some of its combat helicopters with suicide drones. A modular cluster of unguided aviation missiles, developed by the research center Zaslon (Screen) for the helicopter gunship Mi-28NM, will allow …
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A French air force Rafale-B aircraft of squadron 2/92 “Aquitaine” breaks formation after refueling from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 351st Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS) over an undisclosed location, March 17, 2013. on Sept. 30, 2020, a loud sonic boom of the jet flying …
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The Su-30MKI has been the heaviest and one of the most capable fighter in the Indian Air Force ever since and today forms the backbone of the Indian fleet with over 270 aircraft in service. The fighters entered service relatively quickly, with 50 active by the beginning of 2005 and …
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Су-34 (Su-34) – Credits: Vitaly V. Kuzmin According to Russian new agency TASS, Russian fighter-bomber aircraft Su-34 carried out a night-time combat exercise reaching to the heights of 15 kilometers at lower stratospheric level, engaging a ‘hypothetical enemy’ at supersonic speed. The fighter-bombers were from an aviation division of the …
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A pilot from the Swiss Air Force demonstrates the flight capabilities of a F/A-18C Hornet during the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, United Kingdom on July 13, 2018. This year’s RIAT celebrated the 100th anniversary of the RAF and highlighted the United States’ ever-strong alliance with the …
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